Daniel Bongardt is programme director of the GIZ’s ’ Sustainable Transport Programme’ in China. Since 2011, he works on policy development, scenario building and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions in urban mobility, freight transport and electromobility in China. Before coming to Beijing, he was senior policy advisor at GIZ headquarter in Germany. During that time, he has developed GIZ’s transport and climate change agenda and headed a project on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) in the transport sector. Daniel started his career as a (senior) researcher at the transport division of the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, a major German think tank on sustainable development.